Making the nose cone....

[Wynand]

and here are the final pics of the nose cone made....

Some awkward camera angles causes optical illusions here and there, but all is true and symmetrical

[Tilly819]

top job, roughly how long do you think it has taken you to do the nose cone from the start of making the plug to pulling the part from the mould???

tilly

[shaun]

Good job there Wynand, maybe you should start selling them to SA builders

Cheers
Shaun

[Wynand]

Thanks.

Tilly, the plug was the worst part to do and took me from scratch to complete/polished ready for mold 56 hours.
Fitting mold flanges, gelcoat & laminating/reinforcing of mold took about 5 hours and the actual laminating of part in mold 1.5 hours and about half an hour getting mold of plug and part out of mold.

IOW, total time from scratch to part = 63 hours excluding curing times.
Can now produce a nose cone in 2 hours flat

BTW, the scuttle plug, mold and part is done and currently the bonnet mold is on the plug ready to be taken off and the part produced.

[minicountryman1961]

Originally Posted by Wynand

Thanks.

Can now produce a nose cone in 2 hours flat

BTW, the scuttle plug, mold and part is done and currently the bonnet mold is on the plug ready to be taken off and the part produced.

If you sell these parts in SA, you should call yourself HandyWyandy.

[Wynand]

Originally Posted by minicountryman1961

If you sell these parts in SA, you should call yourself HandyWyandy.

not such a bad idea

Reality though, and that's the sorry part, through the Locost forum people are regularly advised to buy a pre-fabricated Locost frames. Anything else is frown upon and my self built chassis put these production frames to shame - heck man, Im a qualified boilermaker with 35 years experience and the very reason I built my own car.
This results in most frames around are Locost units or clones thereof, some even claiming to be Birkins...
All Locost chassis are "book" sized units and these cars are to small to fit my 134kg frame into - hence I built a McSorley chassis, 442E model (wide nose). There are a few other McSorley builders and unfortunately they build the 442 model - this has the std Locost nose width and the engine compartment is shorter than the 442E which has a much wider front as well.
This result in the engine bay top rail angle from bulkhead to front being different and the 442E nose cone, bonnet and scuttle will not fit without some surgery....

Unless someone else build a 442E chassis, the molds are going to gather dust, but the nice is if I happen to get into some mishaps and fender bending, replacement body parts are easy and cheap to get